“I’m pretty sure actually we really do not need to work for five days,” he said, adding that in the next half-decade, the workweek will be cut down to three days a week.
Calls for a shorter workweek aren’t new. Yuan pointed to past productivity breakthroughs—like Henry Ford’s assembly line, which helped reduce the workweek from six to five days. But this time, he argued, AI could accelerate that shift even further.
While that could free up more time for human-to-human interaction, Yuan stressed that it won’t eliminate work altogether.
“We can enjoy the beach time, but we want the kids [to] still find something new, exciting to work [on].”
Fortune reached out to Zoom for further comment.
